Re: [PATCH] spi: spidev: Add compatible for external SPI ports on Kontron boards

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 09:26:29AM +0200, Frieder Schrempf wrote:
> On 14.07.20 21:29, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 10:54:15AM +0200, Frieder Schrempf wrote:

> > > patch in our own tree, or if a node with a custom compatible string like for
> > > example "kontron,user-spi" would be accepted upstream, without a matching
> > > driver?

> > I'm having a hard time getting enthusiastic about it TBH - can you not
> > just use spidev and live with the warning?

> Ok, I can do that, but when I resend my patches and add "compatible =
> 'spidev'" to my DT I expect someone to complain again as my DT does not
> describe the hardware.

That's the issue with kontron,user-spi too though :/

> But for obvious reasons this can't be considered a good solution and it
> seems somewhat disturbing that the maintainer needs to propose it because of
> lack of proper solutions ;)

Hey, I proposed other solutions you didn't want to implement!

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